bowling green
a level, closely mowed green for lawn bowling.
Origin of bowling green
1Other definitions for Bowling Green (2 of 2)
a city in S Kentucky.
a city in NW Ohio.
a small open area near the S tip of Manhattan in New York City, at the foot of Broadway.
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How to use bowling green in a sentence
Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their bowling green presbyterian church, for damage control.
Rather, he organized his own certifying program for ophthalmology based right there in his hometown of bowling green.
I called Rand Paul at his medical office in bowling green, Kentucky.
Mr. Benton replied that “he could not conceive how hay stacks and corn shocks could walk over this bowling green road.”
The Old Pike | Thomas B. SearightI reached bowling green with a force much reduced by the losses sustained in the battle of Perryville and by sickness.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete | General Philip Henry Sheridan
"I ought to be down at bowling green instead of reading Greek stories to you girls," he said rather brusquely.
The Man Between | Amelia E. BarrThey then removed to bowling green, Missouri, and for twenty-one years he was a resident of that state.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison LymanWhilst I am worth one, to pay a weeder—thy path from thy door to thy bowling-green shall never be grown up.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne
British Dictionary definitions for bowling green
an area of closely mown turf on which the game of bowls is played
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